Railway-joint.



R. N. WALTON.

RAILWAY JOINT. l APPLICATION FILED NOV. 30. 1908.l

Patented Mar. v28, 1911.v

narran T RICHARD N. WALTON, OF LOS NGELES, CALIFOR. 1\1IA.L"y

RAILWAY-JOINT.

To au @from 'it may concern: 1

lie it known that 1, RICHARD N. VALTON, e. citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county ot Los :Angeles and I.. given weight, that can be constructed at minimum expense, and the parts of which can be rolled easily with simple sets of rolls. lso to make provision whereby the same rail seat may be used for various sized rails,

thus dispensing with the necessity of providing an entire separate set of .rolls for each size of joint.

The invention relates to means 'for connecting the abutting ends ot' tee rails and for supporting the passing wheels at the open space'between the rail ends.

n object of the invention 'is to. provide superior means for stiffening the joint so that the passing wheels will not depress or pound the rails at the oint.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure 1 is a view of portion of a rail- 'way provided with this newly invented joint. Fi 9 is an elevation from the left of Fig. l, except thatl the top of the bridge-rest is beveled aslant, while in Fig. 1 it ishori- Zontal. Fig. 3 is a broken side. elevation of the joint shown in Fig. 2. Fig. eis a section online a?, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is.a side elevation of a joint constructed with a shorter bridge than that shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. t3 is a side elevation of lthe combined fish-plate and b ridge shown in Fig. 1. Fig. T is a broken view showing the ycorrugatlons lthat may be provided in the vjoint between the base-bar and the fish-plate portion of the combined fish-platel and bridge. Fig. 8 is a view analogous to Fig. 7 showing said i ,at plain. A

1 and 2 designate the abutting ends of two tee rails.

8 designates a rail-seat provided at one edge with a member 1 to overlap one edge the rail-bases 5, and being free on its uper face 6 to slip under the rails for removal and replacement. The overlapping member f1 terminates in a bar 7 arranged on edge above the plain face 6 of the seat and above thebases 5 and parallel with the webs 8 of the rails to form a .bridge-rest or supspecieation of Letters Patent. Patented Mr.. Application led November 30, 1908. Serial No. 465,181. i i

. port. The upper edge -of tli e a beveled aslant downwardly and o and the lower edge of thebritlgeleonf rms; thereto aselearly seen at 9 in Figs. 2. but it may be flat or otherwid" 'I if desired, as indieatedtiniFi gral body comprising-a fish-pl. Odi bridge 11 is provided; the fish-plaie portion 10 tting between the bar 7 and the web y8, 65 and the bridge portion 11 resting on thetop of the bar and extending up to the level of the tops of the rails, `thus to support the passing wheels. The fish-plate portion 10 is provided at.. the bottom with a Jfoot abutment 12 to engage the lower portion of the web 8, and is provided at its upper end with a head abutment 13. The under faceA of the foot of thel fish-plate is aslant to tit the'bases ofthe rails and the upper face of the head l7 5 abutment is aslantbto fit' the under face of the heads ot' the rails. The head abutment 13 does not project so far 'as the foot abutment 12 so that when the abutment 12 engages the web S therelis van open space between the abutment 13 andthe web of thev rail. The parts are so proportioned that when tlieiish-plate isin positionto form the joint there will be an open space 1st, as shown in Fig. 4, between `the bridge portion 11 and the head of the rail, thus allowing the fish-plate portion to be sprung into place when ,the bolts ..15 fare tightened. This springing action'or tension of the fish-plate is designed to assist. -in holding the nuts 16 90 of the bolts from loosening and to operate as a nut-lock. 17 designates the usual washers for the bolts that hold the parts together.

The tish-plate portion 10.1nay be free from the bar 7, or may be fastened thereto byrivets or bolts, as indicated at 18. 19 designates the usual stock inside tishfplate.

The seat 3 may be wide enough to fit various sizes of rails; as for example, S0, S5' or 90 pound rails, may all be fitted by one seat; the only change that is required being in the sizes of the inner sh-plate 19 which is a common stock-plate, and the outer combined fish-plate and bridge 10, 11. Said 'combined fish-plate and bridge may be constructed of superior steel,while the seat and inside lishplate 19 may be of inferior steel. y

The combined fishplateaud bridge may be of greater or less length, as indicated b v the views'. `When the shorter length is used, wooden or other'bl'oeks 20 may be provided 'between the bridge-rest bar 7 and the rail,

as indicated in F ig. 5. The rails, fish-plates and bridge-rest may all be perforated as is usual with the rails and fish-plates of other rail-Way joints to receive the bolts 15; and the rail-seat may be perforated as at 21 to receive spikes not shown for fastening the rail-seat tothe ties, not shown The corrugated faces 2Q, 23 of the bridge rest? and the fish-plate portion 10 are designed to afford greater strength ofjoint.

In a railway joint a rail-seat provided with an overlapping member that terminates in a bar to formv a bridge-rest, a combinedA v23d day of November, '1908.

fish-plate and bridge on the bridge-rest, the

lfish-plate port-ion thereof being provided with abutmentsat thev head and foot, the former being vshorter than the latter, and bolts through the bar and ish-plate to draw the same toward the rails of the joint.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this RICHARD N. WALToN.

In presence of'- JAMES R. ToWNsEND, J ULIA '.lowvrrsmnzn 

